15-letter words containing p, o, g
- hyetometrograph — an instrument used to record rainfall
- hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
- in a tight spot — in difficult situation
- in good spirits — cheerful
- interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- isopropyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 7 , an isomer of the propyl group.
- isotope geology — the study and application of stable and radioactive isotopes to geological processes and their time scales
- jobbing printer — a person who prints mainly commercial and display work rather than books or newspapers
- jogger's nipple — painful inflammation of the nipple, caused by friction with a garment when running for long distances
- john j pershing — John Joseph ("Blackjack") 1860–1948, U.S. general: commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
- judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
- king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
- leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
- lepidopterology — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- leptomeningitis — (pathology) inflammation of the leptomeninges.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- lexical scoping — lexical scope
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- light pollution — unwanted or harmful light, as from bright street lights or neon signs.
- linear topology — (theory) A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
- loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
- lodgepole creek — a river in SE Wyoming, SW Nebraska, and NE Colorado, flowing E to the South Platte River. 212 miles (341 km) long.
- logging company — a company that fells trees and sells timber
- long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
- loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
- low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magnetoreceptor — The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
- main-topgallant — the main-topgallantmast, its sail, or its yard.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- mass psychology — the study of the behavior of large groups of people.
- massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
- measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
- megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
- megagametophyte — the female gametophyte in seed plants.
- mess of pottage — a material gain involving the sacrifice of a higher value